2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research on a system supporting visually impaired students in learning science and image-creation of scientific phenomena
| Project/Area Number |
24501163
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educational technology
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| Research Institution | Hiroshima Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ARAKI Tomoyuki 広島工業大学, 工学部, 准教授 (20257413)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
MIYAKAWA Masahiro 筑波技術大学, 名誉教授 (70248748)
TATSUMI Hisayuki 筑波技術大学, 保健科学部, 教授 (30188271)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 力覚デバイス / 視覚障碍者の科学学習支援 / 視覚障碍者の理科教育支援 / 視覚障碍者の数学教育支援 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
As an attempt to support visually impaired students in learning science, we develop a system using haptic device with which they can overcome their handicap such that it is quite difficult to image mathematical objects and phenomena in nature. The haptic device makes it possible to perceive virtual realities built in PC realistically through the haptic sense. We have constructed mainly the programs by which visually impaired students can have virtual experience of the scientific things such as dynamical phenomena and geometrical 3D objects with the haptic device, and finally built the supporting system which enables them to have mental images of these things so that they can promote their understanding of science.
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| Free Research Field |
科学教育，教育工学
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